Global Journal of Management and Business Research, A: Administration and Management, Volume 23 Issue 5

© 2023. Paulo Deco, João Pitra dos Santos Napoleão & Alcides Romualdo Neto Simbo. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BYNCND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Global Journal of Management and Business Research: A Administration and Management Volume 23 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2023 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4588 & Print ISSN: 0975-5853 Predictive Testing for the Management of Hidden Costs in Organizations By Paulo Deco, João Pitra dos Santos Napoleão & Alcides Romualdo Neto Simbo Universidade 11 de Novembro Abstract - The management of hidden costs in organizations requires compliance with the precepts of socio-economic theory, which imply reaching the four stages of investigation: situational diagnosis, strategic worksheet, prescription and predictive test. To this end, a proposal for a solution is conceived that suggests knowing its effectiveness through a test through reobservation of the motivations achieved among workers after implementing some measures contained in the presented solution. It is in this event that the investigation was developed, with the application of interventionist research, the frequency of malfunctions that cause hidden costs evaluated at 8,392, 259.29 Kz in the investigation carried out in December 2022 was observed and applied through the Plan of Priority Activities (PAP) tool, a short-term tool with seventy-two (72) proposed activities, however, it was tested with the frequency´s subsequent reobservation of the same dysfunctions. Forty-seven (47) took the name of strategic activity, those activities with a value that appeared in the range of 1.5 to 2 according to the results of the spss software, that can mitigate the frequency of dysfunctions and associated hidden costs. Keywords: organizations, hidden cost management, solution and predictive test. GJMBR-A Classification: JEL codes: D24, M41 PredictiveTestingfortheManagementofHiddenCostsinOrganizations Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: